Another one of nature's Republicans in Democratic clothing—and another in the lengthening list of reasons why I've virtually stopped checking in over at Daily Kos. Here's Squealer (Kosname, Armando), handing down the word (to mix Orwell metaphors) on thoughtcrime and punishment, the post in its entirety:

Let me be the first asshole to tell you that bullshit fraud theories and bullshit conspiracy theories are not welcome.

Markos has said it. He means it.

I believe tonight was a great night and a sign that a Fighting Dem Party can and will take back the Congress in 2006.

I don't want to hear baseless theories on fraud and other nonsense. I think, no, I know markos feels the same way.

You want to waste your time, do it somewhere else.

My tip jar will be the fraudster's chance to troll rate me. Cuz once you start diarying your cock and bull fraud theories, markos will show you the door. With my applause in the background.

Via well-known bomb-thrower Ron Brynaert, who contrasts this, aptly and sadly, with Billmon's thoughfully jaundiced post about Clermont County and Ohio electoral shenanigans. "Aptly" because, in dKos terms, Billmon's an Old Bolshevik: apparently the Revolution (as interpreted by Armando) has moved on, and left him in its historical wake.

Quite a performance, no? I've never seen anybody puff his chest out quite so far, or strut quite so hard (outside of, say, some of the Hindrocket's bolder forays), just to proclaim himself somebody else's bitch.

A thug's a thug whatever his ideology. On an inspirational night when an insurgent Democratic candidate came within an eyelash of taking a safer-than-safe GOP House seat, buoyed by a campaign that testified to the strength of the revivified Democratic grass roots, you or I might not have felt moved to such bloody-mindedness as to immediately (and with such ugly relish) threaten our own community with a purge. Then again, we're not queueing up for the chance to be operators in the Grand New Kos Reform Democratic Party, either. Know what? If that's what it looks like, count me the fuck out.

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